Chapter 54: Lurking Inside the Stone Statue Soldier

  "Bang!" The flashlight in Malacca's mouth fell to the ground.

  He stared blankly at the dense soldiers in front of him, subconsciously pulling out the Desert Eagle he had collected from the corpse, ready to fire.

  At this time, his hand was caught by Liu Yi who had just drilled out.

  "You want to die? Fire a shot and you'll attract the enemy, we're done for!"

  Malacca's mouth moved slightly, but he didn't speak, pointing forward instead.

  Liu Yi gave him a stern look and said, "What's there to be afraid of with just a pile of stone soldiers?"

  Malacca put away his gun, rubbed his eyes with both hands, and looked carefully. The soldiers not far away were motionless, under the faint light, dark and gloomy, indeed like stone statues.

  "Damn it!" he cursed and said: "We've hardly rested on this road, we're all exhausted!"

  If you look down from a high place, you can see that these stone soldiers are arranged in a circle around the altar in the middle, one every meter, but it is not known what they were used for.

  Liu Yi and his four companions quietly slipped into the stone forest formed by the stone soldier statues, carefully advancing in one direction, slowly approaching the central resurrection altar.

  Malacca curiously touched this and that, standing in front of a stone soldier statue, muttering to himself: "It looks like it's been a long time, I think if we take one back, we can sell it for a lot of money..."

  No one paid attention to him, there was only a faint sound of footsteps, gradually fading away.

  Liu Yi and several others hurriedly went to sneak a peek at what the foreign wizard was going to do, and by this time they had already arrived near the Resurrection Altar, hiding behind the standing stone statues, observing from the middle.

  A bonfire lit up the surrounding area of the altar. Many people stood at the periphery, holding weapons and looking vigilant.

  Liu Yi roughly counted, there were more than fifty people, each with a big belly and a round waist, obviously they were the kind of people who had been in bloody battles for years, judging from their appearance, they must be from the Ma family army.

  Ma's army had over a hundred members, initially they were divided into three groups. One group went to Keke Village, one group went to Jinan after learning that Liu Yi had the crystal sheep head, and another group went to Suonandajie Protection Station to rob Keke Mu's box. The three small teams eventually converged in Death Valley, many people died along the way, now less than half are left.

  Liu Yi looked into the gap that had just opened, and saw the foreign sorcerer standing under the altar, looking up at the stone pillar on top of it, seemingly lost in thought. Kekemu was sitting on the ground with his hands tied behind his back, looking exhausted, while Huang Paozi stood guard beside him, gun in hand, ready to prevent him from making a sudden escape.

  Liu Yi turned his head to look at Kexi, seeing that his eyes were now shooting out flames of anger, his teeth biting his lower jaw, and faintly seeping out fresh blood. He was clearly using all his might to hold back from shouting out loud. Liu Yi patted him on the shoulder, signaling him not to get agitated, but rather to calmly observe the situation.

  Through the telescope, it can be seen that under the altar of resurrection is a circular stone platform, and around the stone platform are broken animal carvings, which are estimated to have been twelve zodiac carvings when they were intact.

  On the round platform, there were patterns all over, and in the middle was a towering stone pillar. The stone pillar looked about 10 meters high, and at the very top was the resurrection pool that Koko had mentioned earlier, an elliptical plate, but nothing could be seen inside from below. If you use simple strokes to describe the overall shape of this altar, it is a large "gong" character type, short above and long below.

  ……

  The foreign wizard looked around and said, "Although the black-robed woman who attacked us was injured, her magical powers are strong. Everyone be careful and don't underestimate her!"

  She coldly smiled and looked at Korkwood, saying: "I really didn't expect that the ancient Qiang people would still have direct descendants existing, it's truly unexpected, haha!"

  Kirkwood's eyes flashed with excitement when she mentioned the man in black, but he immediately returned to his listless demeanor and said blandly, "There are many things you can't imagine!"

  "Heh heh, legend has it that this resurrection pool holds the secret of revival, but who knows if it's true or not?" The foreign wizard said this with a rare glint of greed in his eyes.

  "Just go up and take a look, then you'll know!" Kerkwood said coldly from the side.

  The fat Huang beside him hit his head with the gun butt, making a loud "bang" sound, and shouted: "Are you going to talk? Behave yourself!"

  Huang Pangzi had long been impatient with Keke Mu, and all the way he didn't give him good fruit to eat. According to reason, after arriving at the sacrificial place, he should have killed him, but he didn't know why the foreign witch doctor didn't take action against him.

  Fresh blood flowed down Kork's wooden head, and when it slid over the corner of his mouth, he stuck out his tongue to lick it, a cold glint flashing in his eyes.

  "You, you, go and take a look!" The foreign wizard pointed at two people.

  The two men looked at each other, walked under the stone pedestal, looked up at the stone plate on top of their heads, and then each pulled out a gun from behind their waist.

  With a "bang", a rope shot out from the muzzle and flew towards the circular disc at the top of the stone pillar.

  At the top of the rope there is a sucker-like thing, not big, about the size of a human mouth. The rope is not too thick, just about the thickness of a person's little thumb.

  All of a sudden, there was a "slap" sound, and the sucker at the top of the rope was firmly sucked onto the bottom of the disk.

  Neither of them went to pull the rope to test its firmness, but instead took a leap and grabbed the rope, climbing up like a monkey with extremely swift movements, as if they had received professional training.

  Liu Yi really didn't expect that the Ma family army would have such a skilled person, it seems that they can't be classified as ordinary poachers. Maybe those guys who were startled away by Liu Yi in Keke Village that day were the lower-ranking members of the Ma family army.

  In less than a minute, the two men had already climbed to the top of the rope. They stretched out their hands and grasped the edge of the stone plate, one pulled himself up with force and scrambled up. The two men stood up on the stone plate and then looked inside.

  The stone disc is about six meters in diameter, with black water inside that can't be seen to the bottom, and there are faint ripples on the surface. A black wooden chest floats on the water's surface, with a sun carved at one end and a moon at the other, and a red dragon painted around it. It's surprisingly identical to the pattern on the "Wu Mu wood boat" that Liu Yi and his companions discovered when they first entered the underground dark river.

  Inside the box was a headless skeleton, emitting a ghastly white color in the faint light, its appearance somewhat eerie. One of the skeleton's hands was clenched into a fist, it was unknown what it grasped inside.

  The two of them walked around the stone disk and after looking at this scene for a while, one of them whispered: "Wasn't it said that there was treasure here? Why is it just a coffin box?"

  It's obvious that this guy is using this black wooden box as a coffin for the dead.

  Another person gazed at the dark water and said, "Who knows? Maybe the treasure is hidden beneath the water?"

  At this time, a foreign wizard shouted in a sharp tone: "What did you find?"

  One of them turned back and shouted downwards, "Inside is black water, and there's a headless corpse lying in a floating box made of unknown materials! On the box, there are strange day-month-blood-dragon patterns."

  Liu Yi, who was hiding to the side, heard this and thought: "Could this corpse be Wang Mang's? It seems that Wang Mang's subordinates did not complete the plan to revive him, otherwise the current history would have been rewritten!"

  Professor Zhou said, "Isn't this foreign wizard here for this box? Is this box related to the so-called resurrection technique?" Kexi was also confused on the side, he had never heard of anything like a resurrection box, hearing Professor Zhou say this, he guessed: "Is the resurrection technique engraved on this box?"

  Liu Yi looked up at the two people, thinking about how to rescue Keke Mu, when suddenly a white bone emerged from the stone plate, resembling a human bone but very thick with sharp hooks.

  Only to see the hook sliding back and forth, pulling the two people on the stone plate into the water very quickly, with a speed that was shocking. If Liu Yi hadn't been holding binoculars and observing carefully, he would have thought his eyes were playing tricks on him.

  Only two people were seen being hooked by white hooks, and even the posture of leaning back was omitted, and they fell directly into the black water of the stone plate.

  The two of them suddenly cried out in unison: "Save us!"

  After the cry, a huge splash and gurgling sound came, and the black water in the stone basin was splashed around, waving and sprinkling under the weak light.

  The Ma family soldiers under the altar looked at each other in dismay, someone whispered: "There must be a monster inside, these two people were definitely dragged down to eat by the monster, or that headless corpse stripped them off!"

  Hiding behind the stone soldier, Malacca whispered: "How much water can a stone tray hold? Can it drown two people?"

  Liu Wei said: "That stone pillar is probably empty, and inside it should be all water. These two people don't seem to have fallen in by themselves, but rather were dragged in by some kind of monster!"

  "What kind of monster could it be?" Professor Zhou Tao asked curiously.

  Korxyi, who was standing aside, had a cold smile at the corner of his mouth and said in a low voice, "A thousand-year forbidden land like this, it's not surprising to come out with a dragon! They are seeking death!"

  Liu Yi didn't take it seriously when Keke Xi said so.

  Dragons are auspicious creatures, how can they appear in the gloomy black water? However, he didn't know that some evil dragons actually like to stay in the black water.

  After the sound of water stopped, the entire Stone Forest fell into a silence.

  The foreign wizard looked up at the stone plate and muttered to himself, "It's said that a blood dragon guards the Resurrection Pool. Could it still be alive? Fortunately, I was prepared."

  She slowly walked up to the altar, bowed her head and circled around the stone pedestal as if observing something. Finally, she stood on the left side of the pedestal and said to Huang Baozi: "Bring the Keke wood here."

  Huang Pangzi heard the order and kicked a kick on Keke Mu, pointing his gun at his head: "Hurry up, didn't you hear the boss's summons?"

  Kirk got up and walked towards the stone pedestal with a expressionless face.

  Liu Yi and others did not know how the foreign witches would treat Keke Mu, so they stared wide-eyed, holding their weapons tightly in their hands, ready to rescue them at any moment if things took a turn for the worse. Although the military strength of both sides was vastly different, it couldn't be helped, they had to fight with all their might.